The Lists of Stuff handbook is nice, but as Nanshork mentioned it's no longer being updated. Plus I do feel the community needs a quick and dirty handbook to look up for Mettle so they can reference it (and therefore know it by heart) more easily.

I'll add those other classes to the list though. Thanks.

Speaking of the Lists of Stuff not being updated: If you got that list from there, then it does need to be updated since the Sohei originally appeared in Oriental Adventures and was then updated to 3.5 in Dragon 318, page 34, not 32. I'm making note of that in my redo, as well as directly checking the pages and such of all those classes.

I have added the suggestions from Demelain and Garryl, as well as added a section about asking the DM if a Ring of Mettle might be available. Might get rid of the ring mention though since it is homebrew, albeit very easily implemented homebrew.

Did Surreal specifically say he wasn't updating it anymore or is that just inferred because it hasn't been updated in a while?

Well, the "Last Update" in the first post says May 2010, and the Last Edit line at the end of the posts reads November 20, 2011. He's been on, profile says he was online just yesterday. No explicit statement, but everything points towards "not updating".

I've considered making my own - repetitive data entry will be about half my job when I'm through with college, anyway - but I'll be damned if it isn't a daunting task to look at, and what is and isn't deserving of a category is a problem all its own.

Did Surreal specifically say he wasn't updating it anymore or is that just inferred because it hasn't been updated in a while?

Well, the "Last Update" in the first post says May 2010, and the Last Edit line at the end of the posts reads November 20, 2011. He's been on, profile says he was online just yesterday. No explicit statement, but everything points towards "not updating".

I've considered making my own - repetitive data entry will be about half my job when I'm through with college, anyway - but I'll be damned if it isn't a daunting task to look at, and what is and isn't deserving of a category is a problem all its own.

I'd advise PMing him and waiting a few days for a reply before doing so. Copying his stuff into a new thread without his permission could be considered rude.

Did Surreal specifically say he wasn't updating it anymore or is that just inferred because it hasn't been updated in a while?

Well, the "Last Update" in the first post says May 2010, and the Last Edit line at the end of the posts reads November 20, 2011. He's been on, profile says he was online just yesterday. No explicit statement, but everything points towards "not updating".

I've considered making my own - repetitive data entry will be about half my job when I'm through with college, anyway - but I'll be damned if it isn't a daunting task to look at, and what is and isn't deserving of a category is a problem all its own.

I'd advise PMing him and waiting a few days for a reply before doing so. Copying his stuff into a new thread without his permission could be considered rude.

I wouldn't copy anything, I'd work from scratch. There's a lot of stuff that I wish was included in the entries, and it'd frankly be easier to work from nothing than to sort it out.But I'm way too busy right now anyway; summer classes being so work dense and all.

I was making a Whisper Gnome Swift Hunter recently who has a 1 level dip into both Warblade and Swordsage. I naturally consulted your port of Carnivore's "ToB and ranged weapons" guide. Incidentally I think I might've found a glaring oversight:

Counter Charge (SS1) isn't listed among the useful maneuvers. Now I understand it has a listed range of "Melee Attack". However, at no point is it actually described as using a melee attack. You don't make an attack roll. You make an opposed Str or Dex check, and that's it. The flavour text is even more clear as to the action you're taking -- "With a quick sidestep..."

In fact, due to the nature of the maneuver only being useful when an opponent charges, and they're very likely to have a greater reach than you, I can't imagine that it's meant to be limited to your melee attack range but rather your opponent's. Otherwise this maneuver is entirely useless. This would be truly foolish, given that there is considerable text and weight given to what happens if you are larger or smaller than your opponent.

Thus the logical interpretation seems to be that this maneuver is green-lighted to use once an opponent charges and is within his melee range. You then choose one ability and an opposed roll is made, with appropriate modifiers applied. In short, it appears the authors were trying to give small, Dex-heavy types another shot at surviving Berserkergeddon.

So given these thoughts, is Counter Charge not a useful maneuver for my Dex heavy, small sized Gnome? What am I missing?